March 23

Feasts

Martyrs Philetas the Senator, his wife Lydia, their sons Macedon and Theoprepius, the notary Cronides, and Amphilochius the Captain, in Illyria (125) (see also March 27);
Monk-martyr Nikon and 199 disciples, in Sicily (251);
Martyr Dometius in Phrygia (360-361);
Saint Victorian, Frumentius and Companions (484);
Saint Gwinear of Cornwall (5th century);
Saint Felix and Companions, a group of twenty-one martyrs in North Africa (5th century);
Saint Fidelis, a martyr in North Africa;
Saint Maidoc (Mo-Mhaedog), Abbot of Fiddown in Kilkenny in Ireland (5th century);
Saint Benedict of Campania (Benedict the Hermit), hermit in the Campagna in Italy, miraculously delivered from death by burning at the hands of Totila the Goth (550);
Saint Æthelwold, a monk at Ripon in England, he lived as a hermit on Inner Farne for twelve years (699);
Saint Felix of Montecassino (c. 1000);
Venerable Nicon, abbot of the Kiev Caves Monastery (1088);
Venerable Ephraim of the Kiev Caves (13th century);
Venerable Pachomius, Abbot of Nerekhta (1384);
Saint Bassian, Archbishop of Rostov (1481);
Venerable Theodosius the Wonderworker, Abbot of the Monastery of the Saviour in Totma, Russia (1568) (see also January 28);
Righteous Basil of Mangazea in Siberia (1600) (see also March 22);
New Monk-martyr Luke the New of Adrianople and Mt. Athos, at Mytilene (1802);
New Martyr Panagiotis at Jerusalem (1820) (see also April 5);
Saint Elena (Bakhteiv), Nun of the Florovsk Ascension Convent in Kiev (1834);
New Hieromartyr Macarius (Kvitkin), Protopresbyter of Orenburg (1931);
New Hieromartyr Elijah (Vyatlin), hieromonk of the Lukianov Monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos (Vladimir) (1938);
New Hieromartyrs Basil Koklyn, and Stephen Preobrazhensky, Priests (1938);
New Martyr James (1938);
Virgin-martyr Anastasia Bobkova (1938);
Martyr Alexis Skorobogatov (1938);
New Hiero-Confessor Venerable Sergius (Srebriansky), Archimandrite, of Tver (1948);
Other Commemorations:
Repose of Elder Porphyrius of Glinsk Hermitage (1868).